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Szymanowski Harnasie; Mandragora

The Naxos Szymanowski series continues its estimable task of placing relatively familiar major works in appropriate but less familiar contexts....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2009

Heggie Passing By

Jake Heggie is the kind of composer that musical theatre – and I make no distinction between musicals and opera...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 13/2010

Celibidache and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Regular readers of Gramophone may be surprised to encounter ‘official’ CDs featuring a conductor who compared making records...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Rubinstein Piano Concerto No. 4, etc

This recording complements Cherkassky’s 1994 studio performance of Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano Concerto (made when he was 85) with a selection...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1996

Schumann & Liszt Piano Works

Here are two performances that I think are of unequal quality. Rubinstein obviously felt at home when recording with Wallenstein,...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1988

Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2; Vocalise

Ludwig Minkus may have been no Delibes or Tchaikovsky, but he does not deserve the disparaging comments that have often...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1995

Patterson Concertos

Paul Patterson, longtime professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, is here celebrated in recordings of three major...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2011

Bach Harpsichord Concertos

Despite a certain in-built incongruity, harpsichords (even modern instruments, by the sound of them) partnered in Bach by an orchestra...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1998

Wagner Choral & Orchestral Works

The focus here is on the ceremonial music of Wagner’s years in Dresden, that highly unstable time in the 1840s...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1997

Great Singers of our Century - Irmgard Seefried

The occasion captured on this live 1969 recording from the Mozarteum in Salzburg was planned specifically for young people who...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2000

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